presence, and power and government thrive as well without as with it. 

 If we would have wise rule and the most beneficent results, love for it is to 

 enter into and permeate a man's soul as blood the body. In the adminis- 

 tration of government, the question never should be raised, what is easiest, 

 still less, what is most profitable; but what is most honorable, as well as what 

 will conduce most speedily to the diminishing of friction among men, lessen 

 the need of law and knit heart to heart into one common humanity. Societv 

 is a common family; hence no member of it should desire action affecting others 

 rights. The healthiness of the body is infinitely more than the healthiness of 

 any individual member. Exclusive ownership is not the doctrine of love. 

 Justice discards party, and therefore it is always represented as blind; and pa- 

 triotism is not merely the love of home, as we naturally have an affection for 

 the land in which we were born, whether it be among the icy ridges of the far 

 north, or amid the verdant savannas of the South. The Ethiopian imagines 

 that God made his lands and deserts, while angels only were employed in form- 

 ing the rest of the globe. Patriotism is something moral; nor can any one be 

 said to take an interest in his country who has not a love for the welfare of 

 those who inherit it. Yet more, patriotism receives its grandest development 

 only as we are loyal to those principles which enter into its civil constitution 

 and give it solid prosperity. Yes, patriotism is principle; true, genuine princi- 

 ple; and the thought that should rule every lover of his country is the hap- 

 piness of all. Long since Virgil wrote — 



"The noblest motive is the public ^ood."' 



And the grandest mdication of all moral progress is when the people, ceasing 

 to forget their individuality, become troubled and disturbed so often as any 

 personal right or liberty is abridged, and justice fails to be seen in that mid-day 

 glory and splendor which appertains to its very nature. Give nie a nation of 

 patriots, of men such as the poet Pope speaks: 



* * * '' Sincere 

 Statesmen, yet friends of truth, of souls 



In actions faithful, and in honor clear. 

 Who broke no promise, served no private end. 

 Who gained no title, and who lost no friend,'* 



and I have no fear foj- its future. Or broadening my language, give me a 

 nation which first and last, in poverty or in riches, in adversity or prosperity, 

 in evil or good report, and which amid all the shifting changes to which this 

 active world is exposed has determined to preserve sacred and inviolate the 

 rights of others, and whose single ambition is to see that these same rights are 

 deepened and enlarged; and alt anxiety concerning the political institutions of 

 that country may be considered at an end; nor will the time be long coming 

 before its people wdl be found rejoicing in blessings of which others to whom 

 such a purpose has teen foreign have not dreamed. And I may add, give me a 

 nation of politicians, as we now use that word, and soon there will be no govern- 

 ment worthy that name. A [)rofessional politician is one in whose heart not 

 only is the sense of justice wanting, but he lives and moA^es and has his being in 

 self; and not till self is enthroned, will he case his babblings. 



Still another truth. Every member of the State should be well acquainted 

 with all the forces which are at work affecting its interests; to encourage them 

 if good — to root them out if bad. Whatever may be the theory on which a 

 government is based, this however is true, that the methods open and secret 

 which now and then are employed to corrupt its administration, are neither few 

 nor harmless. Verily, what evil forces might here be alluded to which fre- 

 quently find full play in the State, and with what determination are they 

 wielded? Who will say that some in our broad land are not seeking to open up 

 springs to poison the crystal streams from which prosperous America to-day so 

 freely and happily drinks? At times what malfeasance in office and prostitu- 

 tion "^ of authority'! \Vhat betrayal of trusts! What struggling for positions, 

 negligence of duty as well as gross misrepresentation! What unscrupulous 

 methods are employed to achieve ends otherwise unattainable! Nor is it very 

 unusual to find absolute incompetency associated with positions of far-reaching 

 influence. And yet the people submit to these and kindred practices as though 

 thev were the needed factors in all o:overnments. 



